Resources: Organizations and Web Sites
Related Organizations
Usability is related to many different disciplines...here are just a few.
HCI and Human Factors
- ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
- ACM/SIGCHI - Special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction
- British HCI group - Specialist group of the British Computer Society (BCS)
- The Ergonomics Society - Professional society based in the UK
- HCD-Net - Human centered design organization in Japan
- HFES - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IFIP - International Federation for Information Processing
- ITG - Internet Technical Group
Technical Communication and Information Design
- STC - Society for Technical Communications
- STC Usability and User Experience
- STC Information Design SIG
- ASI - American Society of Indexers
- ASI Web Indexing SIG
- IEEE-PCS - Professional Communication Society of IEEE
- ACM/SIGDOC - Special Interest Group for Documentation
Information Architecture and Design
- ASIS&T - Two of their SIGs are SIGUSE and SIGIA
- IAI - Information Architecture Institute (formerly AIfIA)
- DMI - Design Management Institute
- AIGA - American Institute of Graphic Arts
- AIGA-ED - Experience Design
- IXDG - Interaction Design Group
Training and Human Performance
- ISPI - International Society for Performance Improvement
- ASTD - American Society for Training and Development